Quotes from Jose Mujica

I can live well with what I have.I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle, and always want more and more.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

We can't avoid that our daily and intimate manner of speaking is sometimes rough.

Any North American state is more important than Uruguay, in dimensions, in its economic force.

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.

No addiction is good.

I am an austere president.

The world will always need revolution. That doesn't mean shooting and violence. A revolution is when you change your thinking. Confucianism and Christianity were both revolutionary.

I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.